Two tours, two homecomings: Troy Bagnall

Says Troy Bagnall of Corvallis, back from his second tour of Iraq, “It comes at a cost. It’s forever going to be a part of you. You have to make peace with it or it will eat you alive.
Don’t let it destroy you or the people around you.”

“A large part of my job was to temper the expectations,” Bagnall
said. “This is what the end of a war looks like. Be happy. I know
this sucks; you’re infantrymen. This has to get done. When you go
to war, you have to be able to do your job, as an infantryman, and
you have to be able to wrap it up.”